Archive for August 2009

British artist says studios in China producing fakes…

Aug 31st, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Zhongyuan Wang

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Full article here. (you can read a bit more about the ‘painting village’ in Shenzhen here)
Quote:
Astract artist Mandy Wilkinson, who is preparing for a new exhibition at Gallery at 94, has issued a warning about the growing nu...


Presser: Bourgeoisified Proletariat

Aug 31st, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

nb. there will be buses leaving Shanghai exhibition center for this event.
Presser: Bourgeoisified Proletariat
A contemporary art exhibition gathering works by more than 40 Chinese artists and art organizations to be held for the first tim...


Shanghai Talk Art Special

Aug 31st, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading
Shanghai Talk Art Special

Shanghai Talk magazine has an art special this month.

Article by Lisa Movius here on the ‘State of the Art’
Quote:
“Beijing is a city a lot of artists move to, and they have pressure: they left their village, or le...


The Beijing art scene 101

Aug 30th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

The Beijinger has a cover story on Chinese art, described as a ‘101 to Chinese art’= it is a pdf file, click here to read it.

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China’s first non-government biennale torpedoed by censorship

Aug 29th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Cartoon, Random Shanghai stuff...
China’s first non-government biennale torpedoed by censorship

Below is the full text of this piece written for the art newspaper.

Beijing’s inaugural 798 Biennale, held in the sprawling 798 art district in China’s capital, saw a chaotic opening on August 15, and major works by Chinese artists were wid...


Artist residency in Shanghai

Aug 27th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

There is a post here offering a room, another room for a studio, and breakfast. After that you’re on your own, but not too bad?

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Welcome to Shanghai….

Aug 27th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Artinfo has a gloriously, erm, marvelous, travel piece on Shanghai here.
It begins:
In colonial times, Shanghai was known as the Paris of the Orient for its grand boulevards, gracious Western-style architecture and oh-so-worldly denizens. ...


Translators Rogue

Aug 26th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

here’s a piece from June
In China’s media Intellectual Property is still theft, as western liberalism struggles against western style nationalism online
A proxy battle over western values is being fought online in China, between li...


Thai tragedy

Aug 25th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not
Thai tragedy
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Shanghai Art Week Art baba listings

Aug 25th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading

Art Baba is kind of rounding up Shanghai Art Week events

Click this link, and click it often for updates.
BTW Weihai 696 may put on an event, hard to say at the moment, some are willing, some are ill, and some reticent.

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